‘Star Fox’ leads slim holiday game slate for Nintendo

By | June 16, 2015

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LOS ANGELES — Nintendo’s (NTDOY) game lineup at E3 exposes a light release slate of new titles this holiday season for the family-friendly video game maker. Nintendo skipped the traditional live media event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo on Tuesday in favor of a pre-recorded digital event streamed on Amazon.com (AMZN)-owned Twitch. The event yielded no surprise game announcements. Nintendo focused attention on “Star Fox Zero,” a space adventure game for its Wii U console featuring anthropomorphic animals as heroes. “Star Fox Zero” is due out this holiday season. Other upcoming first-party Wii U releases include game creation software “Super Mario Maker,” set for release Sept. 11, and “Yoshi’s Woolly World,” due out Oct. 16. It also scheduled science-fiction action game “Xenoblade Chronicles X” for a Dec. 4 release. The Wii U doesn’t have much third-party publisher support, so Nintendo must rely on its own games to drive console sales… Scalper1 News

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